The successfully proven alternative system for relevant business
reporting through performance management
Performance-Based Reporting shows businesses how
traditional accounting fails to provide meaningful measures for
performance and presents radically innovative and thoroughly tested
methods for performance-oriented management, assessment, and
reporting. Twenty-five years in the making, this helpful book also
presents The Baseline Approach to management, assessment, and
reporting-composed of eighty-percent accounting-free methods.
Performance-Based Reporting presents the culmination of
intense experiments involving more than 1,500 businesses and over
4,000 executives. It definitively proves the need for new tools for
realistic business planning and management in an unpredictable
world. These tools already exist, and this helpful guide walks
readers through the process of implementing them to help firms
improve their ability to predict the direction they should take in
the future.
Autorentext
Hans V. A. Johnsson is President of Sound Communications, a partner in RealBiz International AB, and Senior Advisor at Kreab, a leading consulting firm in Europe. His background includes leading positions in international banking and engineering industries, with the last twenty years spent mostly in the United States. He served three years on the board of the Advertising Research Foundation in New York and three years as president of the Connecticut Chapter of the BMA.
Per Erik Kihlstedt is the founder of RealBiz International AB, a company that provides virtually accounting-free methods and tools for strategic business analyses. RealBiz's portfolio of clients includes major companies in the automotive, power equipment, industrial tool, insurance, international business development, railroad, telecom, and retail industries, as well as hundreds of small and medium-sized companies.
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"This is an impressive step in the development of company reporting. The proposed reporting system, based on business definition, business position, business reputation, and advanced cash flow, is actually a revelation. It shows a new way to expand today's business reporting systems, matching development trends in society. I see it as a welcome and even necessary step to bring company reporting in line with today's requirements."
—Pierre Berhin, international fund manager
"I just read Chapter Four . . . extremely interesting and very much in tune with the needs of companies today. Especially the parts about baseline reporting, business definition, and client relationships. It is amazing how many important international companies that I have done consulting for have such internal disasters going on and apply very little of the concepts that you speak of. I believe your book will be received very well and hopefully be placed on required reading lists for business students around the world."
—Christian G. Foucher, international business consultant performance management specialist
"A true enterprise risk management process. Not only should this book have an impact on how society and commerce look upon how we create, preserve, lose, or destroy value and how we account for our business activities, but also on the way we perceive and react to risks and opportunities. Through their teachings and business practices, the authors have significantly changed my own perception of the vast variety of factors and circumstances (risks) that may threaten the health and well-being of organizations."
—Per E. Aakenes, Chairman The Swedish Risk Management Association
"Accounting specialists know that traditional accounting concepts are no longer adequate to describe today's companies, but for the most part they, and corporate managements themselves, have nothing to replace the current system. Now, along come Hans V. A. Johnsson and Per Erik Kihlstedt with Performance-Based Reporting, a clear and convincing description of why the old system can't work and what system can."
—Peter J. Wallison, Resident Fellow American Enterprise Institute
The successfully proven alternative system for relevant business reporting through performance management
Performance-Based Reporting shows businesses how traditional accounting fails to provide meaningful measures for performance and presents radically innovative and thoroughly tested methods for performance-oriented management, assessment, and reporting. Twenty-five years in the making, this helpful book also presents The Baseline Approach to management, assessment, and reporting—composed of eighty-percent accounting-free methods.
Performance-Based Reporting presents the culmination of intense experiments involving more than 1,500 businesses and over 4,000 executives. It definitively proves the need for new tools for realistic business planning and management in an unpredictable world. These tools already exist, and this helpful guide walks readers through the process of implementing them to help firms improve their ability to predict the direction they should take in the future.
Zusammenfassung
The successfully proven alternative system for relevant business reporting through performance management
Performance-Based Reporting shows businesses how traditional accounting fails to provide meaningful measures for performance and presents radically innovative and thoroughly tested methods for performance-oriented management, assessment, and reporting. Twenty-five years in the making, this helpful book also presents The Baseline Approach to management, assessment, and reporting-composed of eighty-percent accounting-free methods.
Performance-Based Reporting presents the culmination of intense experiments involving more than 1,500 businesses and over 4,000 executives. It definitively proves the need for new tools for realistic business planning and management in an unpredictable world. These tools already exist, and this helpful guide walks readers through the process of implementing them to help firms improve their ability to predict the direction they should take in the future.
Inhalt
Preface.
PART I: NEW REPORTING NEEDS FOR A NEW TIME.
Chapter 1: AccountingCrisis or Crime?
The Accounting Tradition.
The Ethics of AccountingIllegal, Immoral, or Indifferent?
A Case for Change.
The Value Mess.
Distorted Metrics.
Chapter 2: When Accounting Meets a New Reality.
The World in the Twenty-First Century.
Accounting and Accountability in the Fourth Economy.
How to Succeed in The Age of Discontinuity.
How to Succeed in an Age of Mind-Based Wealth Creation.
How to Succeed in an Age of Interdependence.
Chapter 3: The Search for Adequate Reporting.
The Need for Alternatives.
Early Efforts: The Scorecards Approach.
The Challenge in Practice: Combining a Broad, All-Inclusive Perspective with a Manageable Number of Factors.
Back to the Crucial Question: What Makes Companies Fail or Prosper in the Twenty-first Century?
Chapter 4: Transparent Reporting Based on Today's Fundamentals.
Reporting to Support Performance, Disclosure, and Strategic Decision Making.
Why the Four Fundamentals?
Summing Up the Baseline Reporting Model.
PART II: IT CAN BE DONE!
Chapter 5: Business Planning in an Unpredictable World.
Business Planning and Enterprise Risk Assessment.
A Change of Perspective: Planning for an Unknowable Future.
Money to Green: Investing in Freedom to Act.
Executive Weekend.
Chapter 6: Where Was the Board?
A Five-Step Boardwalk.
The Baselin…